It's about freely communicating and responding through touch and keeping connected to another person physically.

We had stopped communicating as openly and as freely as we should have.... We want to open that up.

I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys, because we'll always be connected in people's minds.

Keeping in touch with the people that matter is important.

Bean has been talking with Dan at night; they have been keeping in touch.

Assault and battery are often used together, but they are distinct. Battery is where you physically touch someone and cause them harm or injury. Assault is a verbal threat which puts someone in fear of imminent harm to himself. Those statements form the basis of claim for assault. I guess the question is: What's the harm from the assault? The harm that Moore is complaining about is really the hit from behind. What did those threats do to harm him?